Keys to
Successful Living
Part 1
Everyone
wants to be successful in life, but where are the keys to success? Do we have
to go out and search for those keys, or do we have those potentials already
within ourselves? When we begin to examine life, we can see that is divided
into two aspects--life within and life without; internal life and external--and
we can see that these aspects are of equal importance. Even if we have
renounced the world, gone far away from civilization, and live in the
wilderness doing nothing but meditation, we cannot ignore external life. We still
have to see that we eat, do our ablutions, and perform our practices on time. So
life in the external world is as important as life in the internal world.
Even one who
has renounced the world has to understand the word relationship properly,
because life itself is actually relationship. The body is related to the
breath, and the breath is related to the mind. The body, breath, senses, and mind
function together as a unit. So life virtually means relationship, and thus the
art of living and being required an understanding of one’s relationships to the
external world and the relationship within oneself.
